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Shallotte Police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents last week:

•Police charged Johnna J. Do, 46, of 3455 Whiteville Road, with driving while impaired, possession of open container and speeding Jan. 4 on Old Shallotte Road. She was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center.

•Police charged Daniel Everett Cochran, 24, of 316 Orchard Lane, Bolivia, with driving while impaired and no operator’s license on Whiteville Road. He was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center.

Leland police investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week, which are taken directly from patrol activity reports.

•Larceny by employee on Village Road; suspect stole a cash donation box from a store.

•During a routine traffic stop on U.S. 17 South and Olde Waterford Way, Bobby Eugene Long, 24, of 170 Midway Road, Whiteville, was cited and released for expired registration, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county.

The ACE team conducts driving while impaired, driver’s license and criminal information checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances. The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

A pedestrian was struck by a car and killed on New Year’s Eve near Shallotte.

According to N.C. State Highway Patrol 1st Sgt. A. E. Morris, around 6 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 31, Julius Drake Lewis, 53, of Shell Landing Road, Supply, was killed after he was hit by a vehicle driven by Steven Paul Stepka, of Shallotte, near the intersection of Gray Bridge and Tar Landing roads.

No charges have been field, Morris said. Morris said alcohol did not appear to be a contributing factor for the driver.